On April 18, 2014, Horace Mann Educators Corporation ("Horace Mann") received
notice that Mr. Charles R. Wright died on April 17, 2014. Mr. Wright began his
service as a member of Horace Mann's Board of Directors in 2007. In addition to
being a member of a number of Board committees over his tenure, he was serving
as Chairman of the Compensation Committee. As disclosed in Horace Mann's
recently filed Proxy Statement, Mr. Wright intended to retire from the Board in
May 2014, at the end of his most recently elected term.

Mr. Gabriel L. Shaheen, Chairman of Horace Mann's Board of Directors and a
current member of the Compensation Committee, will serve as interim Chairman of
the Compensation Committee until May 2014.